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Laura Sloofman

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Verified email at mssm.edu
Cited by 3185

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

…, G Panagiotaropoulou, BM Schilder, LG Sloofman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-wide
association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

Neuromolecular responses to social challenge: Common mechanisms across mouse, stickleback fish, and honey bee

…, SA Bukhari, LG Sloofman… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Certain complex phenotypes appear repeatedly across diverse species due to processes of
evolutionary conservation and convergence. In some contexts like developmental body …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape of conditional eQTL in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and co-localization with schizophrenia GWAS

A Dobbyn, LM Huckins, J Boocock, LG Sloofman… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Causal genes and variants within genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci can be
identified by integrating GWAS statistics with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) and …

[HTML][HTML] Exome-wide association study to identify rare variants influencing COVID-19 outcomes: Results from the Host Genetics Initiative

…, K Walter, J Jung, AD Stockwell, LG Sloofman… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Host genetics is a key determinant of COVID-19 outcomes. Previously, the COVID-19 Host
Genetics Initiative genome-wide association study used common variants to identify multiple …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of genetically regulated gene expression identifies a prefrontal PTSD gene, SNRNP35, specific to military cohorts

…, HT Nguyen, Y Park, D Ruderfer, LG Sloofman… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
To reveal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) genetic risk influences on tissue-specific gene
expression, we use brain and non-brain transcriptomic imputation. We impute genetically …

Transcriptional regulatory dynamics drive coordinated metabolic and neural response to social challenge in mice

…, CH Seward, JM Troy, H Zhang, LG Sloofman… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Agonistic encounters are powerful effectors of future behavior, and the ability to learn from
this type of social challenge is an essential adaptive trait. We recently identified a conserved …

Mapping anorexia nervosa genes to clinical phenotypes

JS Johnson, AC Cote, A Dobbyn, LG Sloofman… - Psychological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Background Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric disorder with complex etiology, with a
significant portion of disease risk imparted by genetics. Traditional genome-wide association …

[PDF][PDF] An open-label study evaluating the safety, behavioral, and electrophysiological outcomes of low-dose ketamine in children with ADNP syndrome

…, M Might, S Sandin, PM Siper, LG Sloofman… - Human Genetics and …, 2022 - cell.com
Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) syndrome is a rare genetic condition
associated with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. Preclinical evidence …

Genome-wide association study identifies new locus associated with OCD

…, S Ripke, AS Sampaio, MA Schiele, LG Sloofman… - Medrxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a heritable disorder, but no definitive, replicated
OCD susceptibility loci have yet been identified by any genome-wide association study (GWAS…

Ribosomal protein L29/HIP deficiency delays osteogenesis and increases fragility of adult bone in mice

DS Oristian, LG Sloofman, X Zhou… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Mice lacking HIP/RPL29, a ribosomal modulator of protein synthesis rate, display a short
stature phenotype. To understand the contribution of HIP/RPL29 to bone formation and adult …